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Enriched uranium? What enriched uranium?
Posted on 01/27/2008 7:34:54 AM PST by knighthawk
Excerpt from report by Iranian conservative, privately-owned Fars News Agency website
Tehran, 27 January: The deputy secretary for international affairs of the Supreme National Security Council has announced that more than 300 tones of UF6 have been produced at the Esfahan nuclear facilities.
Speaking at a conference of the [Islamic Revolution Guards] Corps's [IRGC's] political officials and guides, Javad Va'idi, deputy secretary for international affairs of the Supreme National Security Council, described the outlook of nuclear developments.
He spoke about the course of the nuclear issue over the past four years, including the haughty opposition of the Americans and the Europeans to Iran's nuclear programme and the suggestion that it is a threat; the imposition of the resolutions of Sa'dabad and Paris [on the voluntary suspension of enrichment] and the 5 August 2005 proposal that anything relating to enrichment should be halted and closed down; the refusal to allow even the use of 20 centrifuges for the purposes of research; and the imposition of suspension, and said that Iran's nuclear programme was one of the trenches in the feud. He declared that their aim was to say "No" to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Va'idi said that, at that time [before Ahmadinezhad's presidency], drawing a distinction between America and Europe, turning towards Europe in order to have it counter America and not having the nuclear file referred to the Security Council were the country's red line and the dominant logic and idea.
He referred to a remark by Fischer, the German foreign minister, when the new nuclear negotiating team went to New York (Shahrivar 84 [September 2005]), in which he officially declared: "We never said that suspension is temporary. We haven't set a time limit for suspension at all."
The deputy secretary for international affairs of the Supreme National Security Council then said that in 1996 the Americans, in Clinton's Democratic Administrations, with Israel's backing and lobbying, told the then Russian president (Yeltsin) that the Iranians did not have the right to operate the Bushehr power plant, and this led to the decisions of the Gore- Chernomyrdin committee, on the basis of which all of Russia's nuclear decisions with Iran were rescinded. [Passage omitted]
Source: Fars News Agency website, Tehran, in Persian 0928 gmt 27 Jan 08
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Send this guy to investigate/sip mint tea.
Enriched uranium? What enriched uranium?
This is a dumb question I suppose but — what is UF6?
Interesting to see that Saddam’s “Yellow Cake” (mocked by idiots the media) is in fact part of the very serious process of making nuclear fuel.
Plutonium is made in a nuclear reactor. The yellow cake is the oxide of uranium 238 with a small amount of uranium 235. If this is enriched with more 235 it can be used in a reactor. If you separate it with high speed centrifuges or a gas cascade process you can get enough uranium 235 that is weapons grade material.
Note: A uranium 235 bomb is easy to make if you have the material. A plutonium bomb is very sophisticated bomb and not easy to make.
The nuclear winter that follows is on the head of the American left wing.
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